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The Christian Sun. FRIDAY, JULY30,1880. D. B. Dunbar,.Proprietor. Rev. J. Pressley Barrett-Editor. OlIR PRIWCIPUKS 1 _Th« Lord Jesus Christ is the only He»a of j th2.-Thehname Christisn. to the exclusion of nil party, or sectarian names. 3 -Thu Holt- Bible, or the ScnpUW.rf the Old and New Testament a sufficient rule of faitn *'4' ^Christian character, or vital piety, the only test of fellowship, or church membership 5—The right of private judgement and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. EDITORIAL NOTES. Do not forget tbe August ','e0 tions. postoffice N. C. His Rev. W. IT. Clerae address is Morritw*ase nQte the correspondents w same. x Agent Conference fund is [during the month oi Au >k after it pastors, deacons l treasurers. Rev. J. W. Wellons has reached the Virginia Valley and is at work. Interesting communications came from him too late for this issue. Dr. Smith continues to wade in deep water. Let it be understood that the views expressed are his, and not necessarily those of the Christian Church. Our aged and much afflicted broth er, Rev. H. B. Hayes, is greatiy in need of the necessaries of life. Who will give assistance! Send to him at Raleigh, N. C. “So far from drawingaline between the secular aud the sacred, Mr. Spur geon wishes that every meal were a sacrament,every garment a vestment, every breath a prayer, and the whole life a hallelujah.” The many friends of the Suffolk Collegiate Institute will be glad to know that improvement upon the property has been commenced, and will be completed it is expected by the time school opens. ltev. E. W. Beale, assisted by Bro. John U. Newman, is conducting a series of meetings at Oakland this week. We pray that the Lord may greatly bless them in this work and add to the church many, such as shall be saved. Bev. C. J. Balston is in - county, N. O., this week assisting fiev. P; T. Klapp in a protracted meeting at Shallow Well. Next week we believe he goes to Zion to labor with the same brother. May the Lord abundantly bless their labors. “It is said of Whitfield that he talk ed of heaven as if he had been there, and that he told of the Saviour’s loye and sufferings as if he had walked with Peter and John at his side.”— Who of our readers will make an effort to walk thus with Christ t A small tract called “A Mother’s Parting Words to her Soldier Boy” was published aud circulated during the late war. It was written by the late liev. Dr. Jeter. The Keligioun Herald wishes to get a copy of it. If any of our readers have a copy it will be gladly received at the Herald office, Bichmond, Va. The oldest religions newspaper in the world is the Herald of Gospel Lib erty, now published at Dayton, Ohio. It is,as it has been since its birth the chief organ of our brethren in the Northern States. It is an abie rep resentative, and an exchange of which we are proud, especially since it is the exponent of the same great principles as those held and taught by the Sun. Recently the Herald made a very bind allusion to our work and asks if we may not get closer together. We thiuk we may. It'no direct organic connection is established, an inter change of visits would greatly strengthen the tie which binds us to gether and perhaps add something to the advancement of the Redeemer’s kingdom iu the world. What say youjfiro. McWhinney t Cau you not come to see us I Wby.Dr. Eaton,must we charge yon with high-churchistnl—Christian Sun. Dr. Eaton is not at all more denomina tional in his feelings than is the editor of the Sun, we presume.—Religious Herald. We do not deny the implied charge. We mean to be a denomina tionalist, to be devoted to the inter est of our denomination, but if the Herald means to charge us with ex elusive sectarianism, that equals what was indicated in Dr. Eaton’s state ment already alluded to, then wo plead not guilty, and ask that one sentence be produced lroin our pen that will prove the charge of exclusivism against os as a follower of Christ. Denominational feelings are oue thing, exclusive sec tarian feelings are quite another. The first we cultivate, love and cherish as conducive to the development of a Christian liie; the second we reject aa poisonous aud hurtful, tending to destroy the spiritual life by eugen deriag bitterness and hatred toward man of God’s children. PEERING PARAGRAPHS. The Millennium. Some writer' bas stud the world is preparing d»y by (lay for the millennium. But we do not see it, says one. Alter seed ha% e been sown In the ground, preparation for harvest time is makiig- lhe work is going ou silently, 1 ® display is made.. Soon the id»nt will come, then the full gra>* S° the kingdom ot God comet* w,th "b serration. He is ^king silently, surely, powerfully Missions Christian Church in the Souther* Slates has more vitali tv in it thau at any tirae pre" vious •■nriag our short ministry.— is a greater purpose on the „t of our people generally to stand ogether and push the cause than we lave seen at auy time. Meanwhile he Missionary spirit is gradually ^rowing. The development of this spirit is necessarily slow. Slow ;rowths are more mature generally, lowever, than quick growths, and or this reason we are not alarmed iceause the missionary spirit is slow, lowever slow its growth may be, we jelieve it is rapidly becoming the hub, io to speak, around which all our en ,erprises seem to catch the rallying spirit. Let every Christian give this ;ause a push and it will ere loug be come the admiration of the whole church. Young Men. Among the sad facts which touch the lives of young men and the purity of those lives, is that of immorality as exhibited in that part of their time which we call “spare moments”—the time when they can leave work. It is said that idleness is the devil’s workshop, but this is not idleuess, and yet we would not say the “spare moments” which most young meu have from their work is not converted into a work shop for the wicked one. Why this is so is not so clear as that it is so. A vounsr man comes to the village to clerk. The store closes at 9 o’clock at night and opens early nest morn ing, but in this time which ought to be spent in rest reading and sleep, the way to the gambling den is found and then the bar room aud then to ruin, most frequently. Why do the young meu find these places so readily T We believe in many cases because these dens of destruc. tion are nicely and comfortably fit ted up for the attraction of the young. What is the remedy f Like forces equalize each other. So the attrac tive part of these dens must be equal ized by other aud wholesome places made attractive lor the purpose of weaning them away from these dens of sin, which, however, have a kind of attraction about them. To make the point practical, let villages cursed with these dens institute a public li brary for the benefit of the young men of the town, adding to it as many attractions as possible. This would equalize aud counteract the in fluences of these dens and in many cases save a young man from ruin. Who will move T Girls in School. It may be odd to write of girls in school while they are in the midst of their vacation holi days, yet we venture to set our pencil a going on this subject, liirls in school! Yes, they ought to be there from September till June or therea bouts. It is generally understood that the girl in school has to deal with grammar, mathematics, draw ing, paiutiug, music, &c. These are quite worthy of her closest attention, but by no means worthy of all her at tention. The cultivation of habits of neatness and order aTe worthy and must have a portion of her attention. This part of her education is co-equal with auy other part of it, in fact one aspect of it is superior—for of what value would be the education of a young lady whose every accomplish ment was beclouded with slovenliness and uncleanly habits f Have not the teachers of the schools of the couutry given too little attention to this mat ter, while they have urged the aver age school girl to pack and cram her mind with the artificial rules of the stpdies she is pursuing, all of which may have a sort of would-be timeliness in the school girl’s education,but nev er at the expense of cultivating clean ly habits and neatness. Parents can not afford to have their children sub jected to such surroundings in their education. The girl who gets the un cleanly iiaoiis meu iu uu mo at school will hardly ever rid heraell of them wheu she leaves school. Hab its grow and when, grown they can not he easily broken up. In our opin ion a part of the teacher’s duty is to see that this matter has the necessa ry attention. It is equally important with any of her studies, because with out neatness aud order her accom plishments are like diamonds on a vulture—they are not complimentary in any sense of the word. We call upou the managers of our schools centrally to give this matter atten tion\loriug the next session. We be lieve it vdll be » profitable advertise ment for tN> school which shall make this apart oi'Us »ork in the highest sense of the woi .** We parents waut their daughte.’’8 t0 80“€ thing of cleanliness, i.‘tb'ts of or*/" lUlllg wi nitaiiiiuvooj ** md household life, as <ve" 38 itudies pursued iu the dai reed ions. What school will lead iu Hj natter T HOW ROME_WAS BUILT. It is said that Romo was’not built 1 a day—the presumption then is bat it took lime to build that splen id city. Time is necessary for the ompletion of all enterprises that are rorthy the name. That which gets ts growth in a day will be most like y to fall in a night. So things of apid growth are likely to be short ived. This theory, if theory it be, is s true of/Church matters .as in mat ers of State. Some object to .the ime required in building up the differ at enterprises of the Church. Say hey it will take so long. In 1870 a muister of our Oonfeience (he is not tow) complained that it would take o long to accomplish uuythiug in he Home Mission work which was ust then in its iiu^ieucy with us. Che mission work started in 1870 vas indeed a small thing. Four years lave passed. That is not a great while, md yet in this short time, the (loine Mission work has built up two or ;Uree Churches aud added 'much to the liberality of our people, and now t is stronger, financially, aud in its sold upon the hearts of our people than it ever was, with its future bright aud promising. Time was ne cessary to reach its present strength and its preseut foundation. The length of time required to lay this foundation, however, has giveu it much greater strength in its hold upon the affections of the people—its main dependence uuder God for sup port aud a long life of usefulness to the Church. This is true of all real valuable work. In this day when so many re forms are introduced arnoug us, and (whe!li we see so many new methods of work which we are trying to in troduce,and at the same time observe how long it takes to introduce them fully, the temptation is to despond of success and cry out, How long 1 How long! We know something of the feeling which actuates this lam entation. Be patieut, “Rome was uot built in a day,” and these reforms aud new methods of work can not be introduced and established iu a day. Time is necessary. w lieu we see uuw «iu>* uui i»c«vu ers are to adopt tlie plan of auti'ig in concert, we feel like efforts in this di rection are vain, and yet there is much more concert of action among us now than formerly. When we see how slow we are to look alter the financial matters of the denomination we can scarcely restrain hard thoughts of the brethren, and yet as a denomination we are doing far more than formerly. These reforms and new methods of work are gradually gettiug into our ideas and feelings, and when they come in this way there is some permanency about them, and this will make them valuable to ns in our cause. There is room for im provement and improvement is going on daily. We can not do our work in a day, but a century of hard work will construct for us a grand Church. Let no man despise the day of small tbiugs. The great trees of the forest grow out of small seed. A NEW BOOK. Memoirs of Deceaseo Christian Ministers, by Rev. E. W. Hum phreys. Published by the Chris tian Publishing Association, Day ton, Ohio. The author of this neat volume ol more than 400 pages has favored ns with a copy, which we have very much enjoyed. It contains short and well written biographical sketches ol 975 deceased Christian ministers, from almost every State in the Union. These short and varied sketches show that much time and patient labor has been spent in the preparation ol the book. Twelve years ago Ibis work was commenced, and it has steadily gone on till now it is completed. We have read with care much of the book and find it more acceptable than we had expected. As far as we are ca pable ot judging, no North, no South was known in the preparation of the book. Walter of the North and Wel lon’s of the South—two of our most prominent men—have very nearly the same space given them in its pa ges. Besides no sectional matters are introduced to mar its beaaty or to make it otherwise than acceptable to our people at the South. Only two names of our deceased ministers, so far as we have noticed, havo beeu left out of the book. This, we are satisfied, is no fault of the au thor. It is due rather to the failure of the friends of the ministers to send Bru. Humphreys the necessary data. We have long felt the need of bio graphical works in our church litera ture aud we are glad to say that this book meets the demand far better than any thing we have elsewhere. The young meu aud ladies of our church ought to read it that the ex amples of these worthy dead might stimulate them to greater pur poses and actions in life, while our older people will be delighted with it because it will awakeu and rekludlo so many sad aud yet pleasant memo rw§0f$be earlier days of tbe church. A.t vb» tea ueat pf the author of the book tbe kiiierfifitofi JtPJ* has con tented to act as bis agent for the Southern States. We will supply inlets accompanied by the cash at :he rates of $12 a dozen, or for single jopies $1.25. We think most of our ministers can sell a dozen copies in their churches, and we ho|m they will ilo so, as the book will undoubtedly do good. If you can not sella dozen copies scud $1.25 and get one for yourself. GATHERED GRAINS. —By divine permission I will com mence a protracted meeting at John son’s Grove on tlie 2nd Sunday, in August. Ministerial brethren invit ed to attend.— jlf. It. Itanett. —I want a Christian Church iu Norfolk.—A Norfolk Sister. Yes, and we mean to do all wo oan Jo aid you in getting one there. Let Ms make it a subject of prayer. (' —lu a few days now \l expect to enter upon the protracted meeting work ; pray the Lord to bless these meetings.—Rev, 1C. Q. Clement*, Mor risrillc, i\r. V. We hope the prayers ol the church generally may go up to God iu behalf of our protracted meet ing work. May this be a great har vest year. — We are hoping for a great work and a grand success for our Suffolk Collegiate Institute the next session. Tell Prof. Kemodle and Prof, lxi 1 by that we expect all that at their hands. .—.4 Lover of that School. Professors, you hear that—govern yourselves ac cordingly. We believe they arc do ing a good work, and we want, our people to help them. —It does look like some of our Sun day-schools feel that they have got ahead of Satan, sure enough, and are resting while he catches up.—A. S.T. Yes, it is does seem so. We fear they will find him a long ways ahead when they start again. Satan is cunning —watch him. —“Sensitive people often imagine that the whole world should l>e run in their interest.” That suggests the inquiry whether a sense of one’s per sonal importance is not often the cause of sensitiveness f—Religions Herald. —‘■sensitive people are mucn use a eat with a til l forty feet long, drag ging it around upon the floor that you may tread upon it.” We have never seen such a cat; hut we have seeu sensitive people who actually enjoy their sensitiveness, and are ever on the alert to attribute to their fellows unworthy motives.—Religious Herald. We believe the Herald wants the llaptists to give up sensitiveness. Well, Doctor, if you ever succeed, re member that we have a stauding Macedonian ciy: “Come over and help us.” Do not. forget it. —1 recently called to see Kev. J. A. Scott of Raleigh. He is a man of line personal appearance and he is an intellectual man, too. 1 think the time is not far distant when he will throw himself wholly into the minis try.— liev. H'. O. Clements, Morris ville, X. C. lire. Scott, wo have no doubt is too useful a man to be .silent. A church needing a pastor would do well to correspond with him. —There are some young preachers who ought to get married or get out of the ministry.—Richmond Christian Advocate, lint which would yon ad vise, Tiro. Lalferty 1 —One single sin may destroy the soul as surely and effectually as many. One broken wheel ruins the time keeping quality of a’ clock.—Raleigh Christian Advocate. How true ! Alas, poor sinner how true of us all, and yet Jesus Christ loves us—he blots out our sin and we are saved. —“I am a denominational man,and yet I love all of God’s childicn—am willing to woik with them and meet them at the Lord’s table.” Certainly. That is right. It is not sinful to be denominational, if we are not exclu sive in our feelings toward other Christians. ON AN liMCRFUSE OF FAITH. By the late liEV. <1no. N. Manninu. “Lord Increase Our Faith.”—Luke •17: o.” All who read the Scriptures, must perceive the importance attached to faith. It is represented as the first grand step in acceptable piety, 'true just brings us to Christ as sinuers, and keeps us near Christ as saints. It is represented as the first princi ple of the Christian life. “Now the first shall live by faith.” It gives po tency to prayer. “Whatsoever ye ask in my name in faith believing yo shall receive.” Faith alone can pre pare us for the solemnities of a dyiug hour. “All these died in faith.” 1 What is faith T I answer Faith is credit given to testimony. Christian faith ig a firm persuasion of the truth of what God has testified to ps ip his word. It is connected with reliapce and trnst. Bfivjpg |pitb is the credit given to the gospel tPStipopy, concerning Christ and-the soul’s resting oo the foundation there laid for pardon pud eternal life. Now faith must never be connected with sight, for it has reference to things unseen. Nor with reason, which judges according to its iwn powers, cnpacity and informa tion. I may think this system is right, or give my assent to the other, hut opinions are widely different from faith. Nor must it he confounded with impulse, mere iuternal emotion or mental excitement. Wo must not. separate faith from knowledge, the subject must be revealed or known before it enu lie believed. “So then faith cotnetli by bearing and bearing by the word of God.—Bom. io 17. Faith may iucrease, hence we read of weak faith, of little faith, and faith as a grain of mustard seed; it is small in its commencement, therefore its growth and culture must be sought. “Faith may increase io clearness as wo understand the testimony more fully, our faith becomes brighter as tile character of Giirist is more aud more opened to us, so will our love and confidence in Him be increased, we lean on Him, fix our eyes by. faith on Him alone; look to Christ for nil we need in every difficulty, every dan ger, aud from every foe. Iu the strength of Jesus wo trust. Weak faith falters, wavers, and at last sinks, but by cherishing the principle of faith, it grows, aud obtains a firm hold of the mind and hcarr, wo be come settled amf grounded in the truth, become rooted, and our faith increases iu streugth and vigor. Faith may iucrease iu experimen tal assurance the penitent believes aud is forgiven, the Christian though tempted gains the victory over temp tation, though sorrows and troubles come upon him iio leans by faith on Jesus, looks up and is com no ted, lie trusts One who never lulls him. The prayer for an incrcusu of faith, “Lord increase our I'aitW We must guard against a common error, we are not to pray as ll (Ik; whole resled with God’s communications. lie has al ready given us the testimony, and the great object el faith, also given ns the capacity and power toknowuml believe, bat by spiiiinal intlnenee he eau excite to greater attention, in spire with higher aider, give power and success to the means, cause his sun to shine and his dew s to tall, just as we pray lor daily bread and use every effort. So when we pray for an increase of faith, we must use the means appointed by God for its growth and cultivation. The connection between strong faith and all the other graces is most intimate, just as faith is so will hope, zeal, humility, patience aud love he. “Faith works by love,” it influences our prayer, praise, reading and hear ing the word, every tiling is to us as our faith is. Faith is essential in difficult and trying situations when tempted, abu sed, in trouble or fear of death, by faith .Moses feared not the wrath of the king. It gave courage to Peter aud John. F’aith is our staff iu our old age, our support amidst infirmities. Our anchor iti the storm, the beacon star when death approaches. Oh, let us earnestly and daily seek an increase of faith. Guilt, wretchedness and dis pair must ever be where there is no faith. 0 let triumphant faith dispel The fear or guilt and woe I If God be for us, God the I,or l, Who, who, shall be our foe? TEMPERANCE. We have uo quarrel against those who do not receive our views upon this subject; but let us reason togeth er. Uow we propose to examine briefly the different classes engaged in the sad business of intemparauce to perpetuate its evils. We shall uotice drunkards in the first class. Moderate drinkers in the second. The maker aud vender iu the third. .in butiiug ujj tuu iirsL ciass, we ask, is drunkenness sinful f We judge a tiling by that which it pro duces. Drunkenness inebriates the brain, dethrones the reason, debili tates and debases the body, turns love into hatred, and fills the deluded victim with false and wicked con ceptions. It fataly poisons the morals aud blasts every noble impulse of the soul. It drags man from the promi nence of respectability, down to the lowest pits of degradation aud misery. It arms him for the committal of the darkest crimes which are known to mankind. But we can better deter mine the great sinfulness of drunk enuess by looking into the Bible.— See Isa: 6,11, 22. Prov. 23: 32. 1 Cor. 0:10. You will see from this soripture that God coudemns it iu the very strongest terms. We come now to the second class— moderate driuker. This class pos sesses more respectability (I) than tlie poor drunkard who has so degra ded himself. Many in this class are respected and honored aild stand aipong the leading tpep of the world, and have a great iuiiuence over socie ty- ^v, we flpd many Of them withiq the p^lo of the church, some times leaders there also. The ques tion arises, is moderate drinking sjp ful if first, we remark that it is a bad example to set before young or dd. it tends to no good. The mod arate drinker is capable of doing more injury to the good morula of society than the debased and out cast Irunkard who has comparatively no iiAnence, bat by bm business, has rendered himself disgusting to all sober people. » The more prominent and respecta ble the moderate drinker, the more intlueuce he hus, and cousequently the greater will be the harm done to society. Another reason why we con clude that the use of intoxicants as a beverage is sinful is, that it leads directly to drunkenness. This is the great camp of instruc tion from which the vast army of drunkards is continually drawiug fresh recruits to All the places of those who arc slain by king Alcohol. The strongest argun eut, perhaps, that we can raise against moderate driuking is, the Bible condemns it. Does the dramdrinker believe thief If ho does not, then let him examiue again Isa., Prov., Rom. 13:13—Rom. 14.21.— Reader, if you are not already satis fied upon this subject, examiue this scripture carefully. Ah! moderate drinker, beware, you are standing on dangerous ground. Thousands who are now outcasts of society once stood where you are now standing. Every dram you take is just another step in the downward road. It is by these drams that you step ulotig the road that leads to destruction. The steps you arc now taking will never lead you to sobriety, but you are iu great peril every day. Now you may re trace your steps and make amends, and cast, vom ir ducnco on llie side of tern pern nee nud tied. Then delay, delay not, but cum end he wise, and he lint deceived, for wiue is :i mocker, and lie that is deceived 1 hereby is not w i>e. lil t ns 11m\v come i<> tli« lust class— thi* maker mill vi*u<lei- of intoxicants as a be\erage. Is it sinful to make and soil these intoxicants as a bever age? AVo answer firmly dial it is We believe it to be a gi cuter sin than either of the other two. It is a fountain o. ml that sends forth wormwood and gall emit mindly. There is nothiug good or sweet t hat ever flows from this fountain. Iris the great thoroughfare hi which all the unholy work of intemperance is moulded. Bacchus rules and rcigus here and his subalterns are faithful to perform all his commands. We spoke ol'a camp of Instruction. The drilling-master or instructor we find in the maker aud veuder. Their le gitimate and ultimate work is the drunkard. Their daily business is to make and sell aud to get just as many as thep can to become their-custom ers. When we trace their work to its flual results, ah I what do we find. Ah ! rum seller, what do you find 1 You do not fiud the little innocent boy who was once dandled on bis mother’s knee. You do not find the pure hearted noble young man, the pride of his parents, or the old add happy mau honored by bis hoary bead. You do not find any of these, but yon may behold the debased and forsaken drunkard whom you have ruined by your nefarious traffic. His happiness in this life is goue, and there is a fearful looking forward t£ a future judgment. Yes, the drunkard is your work. The most degraded be ing that walks, rolls, or tumbles upon this beautiful earth of ours. If the thing made, be thus bad, debased, wicked ; how wicked, oh 1 how wick ed and how far from Christianity is the business, or the person who is engaged in this unholy calling. The Bible condemns this traffic in lan guage strong aud plain. See Bab. U: 15; Isa. 5 : 22, and Paul’s wri tings. But I must stop; lam spin ning my thread too long. Search the Scriptures, &c. H. A. Al.BEIOHT. THE LAW IN ITS RELATION TO THE JEWS ANOGENTILES. The judgments mentioned by Eze kiel uud Daniel do not refer to the Gentiles. The cherubims preside over the destiny of Israel, and the threatened judgments ofGod to the Israelites came through them, in a great measure. It is true that Idola tors tempted the Israelites. What if they did I No one said they should not. They had a right to worship anything they pleased; for no one with authority forbid it. They were loft to themselves, and to make them patieeps criminis to Jewish idolatry is absurd. They had the law toguide tnetu, tfuti uigu priests and prophets to biing tbeoi uens from heaveu, and why did they go after strange Gods. These terrible judgments spoken of by Daekiel aud Daniel were to be chiefly visited upon'those under the law, and referred to the flual over throw of their government as a peo ple, and to give it into the bauds of others at whatever cost it might re quire, Titus tberofoje came with an army besieging Jerusalem, which drenched the oity with blood aud de stroyed the Temple leaving not one stone upon another. It looks as though the flery indig nation aud wruth of God was let loose uuong them. And, the abomination hat inaketh desolate was then staud ug in the holy place. Saint John’s vision also conveys the same idea. The history ofthe Jews is without a parallel in the wdrld’s history for cru elty and wickedness. It excels the days of Agamemnon or any other age. They used false weights aud ^ measures und done all for gain ; and the prophet said the good mau had perished from the earth, and be struck a plurablinoj by which he would not pass, and compared them to a “bas ket of ripe fruit, in proper condition to be consumed now, for you will not keep any longer.” The daily sacrifice was takeu from them, aud for 390 years they remain ed without a prophet identified with ldolators. In this miduigbt dark ness Christ came to the house of Is rael, to which he alluded iu the Para ble of the Bridegroom. Wheu the aunouucemeut came that he who should redeem Israel wus born, Herod caused all the male chil dren to be put to death around Beth lehem, hoping thereby to destroy the child, who he supposed would usurp his throne if allowed to live. God caused the child to be taken outot the way until Herod wus dead —alter which he was called from Egypt. This is nicely illustrated by Jobu, the ltevelator, in reference to tfye man child whom God took care of for a time, and carried the mother to the wilderness, after whom the Dragon sent a fiood tide of water to drown, but these waters were swal lowed up by the earth aud she es caped. Water here answers to peo ple, and this circumstance applies to Herod inartialing his lorces to de stroy the Son of God. The jealousy of the Jews did not die with Herod, in alter years, wheu the child arrived at mature age and entered upon his missions, they used every effort in tueir power to destroy him. Being bent on his destruction, they formed n collusion with Judas to betray him into their hands, which he did suc cessfully, and crucified him. Now, who is responsible lor this bloody deed f \\ ho crucified him f The Jews! The Gentiles are in no way icsponsible. It was a voluntary act of their own and assumed all the re* spousibility of the crime, and their skirts are to day stained with iuuo cent bloud, and his blood, like that of Abel, crietb from earth to heaven, for they slew thcirowu brother in the Uesh as much so as Cain did. Oaiu was cursed and sent away with » mark set upon him, which was a fig urative representation of the banish ment ol the Jewish nation from the favor ot God and his church, and of giving it to others who would perpet uate its rights. Their banishment scattered them all over the face of the* earth into every nation and their un belief remains complete. ' The Jews having sacrificed him ha must be a Jewish sacrifice, tor no one ever commanded a Jew to offer a sac rifice for Geutiles, such as Christ, who was blood of their blood and bene of their boue. Born under the law as well as they, and complied with all the requirements of the law, that he might redeem them that were nnder the law. The blood of a Gentile would have been worthless in this case for the re demption of Israel, and why should the blood of a Jew be required to re deem Gentiles, who were not under the law I After the sacrifice was made and rejected, he could ask a Gentile to believe on him and be saved upou the terms of the gospel then Uuiversalwm is true f but, again, if I am right, that the atonement sat isfied the law of Moses only, then Universalism Is not true, and if they die without repfentance and the sec ond birth, they are lost as well as the Jew. God and the t the atonemeu of the whole \ and that atq and that only, he concluded might save all intercessor a The Jews being redeemed from the law by accepting Christ, then he could be their intercessor. But, as they now staud, they are debtors to the whole law as though Christ had not shed his blood for them. Now, the law being dead, they caunot pay its demands, it has passed away, and the Prophets aud Priests have passed away with it. Jubilee Smith, Richland, Oa. NEWS FR0M_THE FIELD. .I “lift up your eyes, and look on the Fields; for hey art white, alrendu to hanett."—St. John 4:35. Lockville, If. 0., July 20th.—I was with Rev. P. T. Klapp, my bro ther, at Christian Chapel church, last Saturday aud Sunday. On Saturday after preaehiug by the writer, the 3d quarterly meeting was called to order by Rev. P. T. Klapp, the pastor. The business of the Church was doue iu j decency. The Church enterprises were brought before the body aud dis cussed. Sunday morning the pastor preached a funeral, his subject was the “■Resurrection.” " '• ' ‘ 8. B. Klapp. Mister Hobn and His Friends or Givers and Giving by Mark Guv Pearse. Illustrated. Mass. I. K. Punk & Cq., 10 & 12 Dey St., N.' Y. Price 15 cents. Get it, read it, anil buud it to your ttiOgy friend.
The Christian Sun (Elon College, N.C.)
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